Unbounded loyalty : frontier crossings in Liao China /
Unbounded Loyalty investigates how frontiers worked before the modern nation-state was invented. The perspective is that of the people in the borderlands who shifted their allegiance from the post-Tang regimes in North China to the new Liao empire (907-1125). Naomi Standen offers new ways of thinkin...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
©2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. Borders, boundaries, and frontier crossers: concepts and background
- You can't get there from here : rethinking categories
- Fed or dead: notions and uses of loyalty (zhong)
- Crossing boundaries and shifting borders: the first-generation Liao southerners
- Part II. Working for the Liao: life stories
- Loyalties in the borderlands: the founder and the Confucian
- An emerging boundary: two approaches to serving the Liao
- Drawing the line: redefinitions of loyalty
- Conclusion: locating borders: then, now, and in between
- Appendix: frontier crossings.